Reader: My top five sci-fi films

Dan Landes loves sci-fi. And he'll prove it on Friday, when he hosts May the Fourth Be With You -- a sci-fi extravaganza complete with costume contest, live music and movies -- at his restaurant, City, O' City.

Landes wouldn't reveal what costume he'll be wearing, but in anticipation of that orgy of nerdness, he did offer up his list of the top five sci-fi films.

Which inspired this from scumfuck:

1. Solaris (1972)

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey 3. Alien (More of a horror movie but sooo much better than Aliens)

3a. The Road Warrior

4. Alphaville

5. World on a Wire

What are your favorite sci-fi movies? Post them in the comments section below.

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword, Denver’s News and Arts weekly, in 1977; she’s been the editor there ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly Colorado Public Television roundtable Colorado Inside Out, the former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies -- a post that got her an unexpected interview with former President Bill Clinton in front of a thousand people (while she was in flip-flops) -- and played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City.